Cushion-heel.



No. 882,268. PATENTED MAR. 17, 1908. R. W. PERRY.

CUSHION HEEL.

AP'iLlGATION FILED JULY 22.1907.

REUBEN W. PER. LY, O l" SlONlilHAlll, MAESAVliUSlC'TF-S, ASSIUNOR Ul" (h H; minim-121 CUSHION-HEB L.

To all QlJhOWt it may 0071 cem:

'Be it known that I, REUBEX W. PERRY, citizen of the Uniteddtates, resid' .g at Sloneham, in the county 02' lvliddlesex and State of 5 Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Izn roveiuent in Cushion-Heels, of which the l'oll ow ing is 21 speeifirstion, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to an improved cushion heel composed in part of leather and in part of rubber, and the object'of the pres ent invention is to fasten together the several layers of rubber and leather composing the heel in such manner as to obtain the greatest amount possible of elasticity and durability.

In the construction of combination heels of leather and rubber us heretofore made, the difi'erent layers have, so far as I am aware,

been secured toget ier hy cement or by metallic fastenings such as nails, rivets and the like, in such manner that the different layers are rigidly connected together so that there is no ple of one layer with relation to the other. 1 the hits are cemented together,

there can be no movement of one hit with relotion to the other, and consequently the flexibility is diminished.

The invention consists in forming the heel with three lifts, the bottom lift being composed of leather, the top lil't having a insrginnl portion of leather end on inner portion of rubber and the intermediate lift hziving its rear portion of rubber overht ping the rear end of the rubber portion ol tie top lift, the three lifts being secured together by stitches passing through all of the l fts near the man in thereof, the poi -ons of the top lift and bottom lift through which the stitches puss 40 being of leather.

The invention will be iuily undersirmd from the following description when in eonnection with the itceoinpunyiug driuviugs, and the novel features thereof will be pointed out and icioui'ly defined in the chums at the close of the specification.

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upper side of it h oi emood' tion. Fig. 2 is u t o: the ooi fac of the heel, that is 03' Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 32, 1:307.

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Serial No. 38-23553.

is of the breast o 51's it longitudinelrertieni so i of Fig. I. Fig. 5 is it side hruken ztwuv, lollowing the in the preferred form 0 t shmvn in Figs. 1 to 6 iniusfr lift 1 is rxilolly 4" left. 7 composed of it nmrgimil 1 of horseshoe shape und 0. of rubber and the inter-med posed of a front portion 2 oi lliltl u rear portion 5 of rubber, the intermediate rubber portion 5 lapping over Jill/U the ruboer portion 15 oi the top lift, the ti o riiober portions being: vulcanized tog hr. so as to umkeoneintegrulrubl portion. Th i lifts are scoured together hr :1 row of 7 around near the margin at about *1 distance from the edged, mt are driven when the dille'i'i, together lay mills. lhese seen, pass through the both the log) lift mid th there run he no draw 0 stitches into the surl'iwe or would be i' the portions oft lift throng of rubber.

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i5 i)Clll llUf-Ill7lt.,till combined heel iiuiu xv i, different layers were rigid l'esienings such Not only is there grin materiel us at will leather liiis vii to the ruhher when, portion of t a. heel is (:o! ing ii' the rear ground irst stitching is lZlit oi the her-i u. i eiiuruztr-r Io ii cured to til i mills v. tom l cured together by a row of stitches passing the top and bottom lifts through which the through all of the lifts near the margin therestitches pass bein of leather. of, the bottom lift being composed of leather, In testimony W ereof I affix my signature, the fo lift having a marginal portion of in presence of two Witnesses.

5 leather and an inner portion of rubber, the REUBEN W. PERRY.

' ntermedia'te lift having its rear portion of rubber which overlaps the rear end of the rubber portion of the top lift, the portions of Witnesses: 1

WILLIAM A. COPELAND, ALINE TARR. 

